Have a safe and fun trip, Craig. And like Paul, I am jealous. I love the Oregon Coast. Enjoy.

Yeah, you would think 2-0 in the 7th, with Bum on the hill, that the game would be in the bag. But Coors Field again shows what a house of horrors it can be. Moranta struggled in throwing strikes, and if Crawford makes the play he routinely makes, that would have kept the game tied. Tough loss. Oh well, dust that shit off and get ‘em today.

Taking Bum out was tough call and I don’t fault Bochy. He wasn’t hit hard that inning and Blackmon was the key. If he’d been able to get him out they could have walked Arenado to load bases and maybe gotten out unscathed. As it was if not for Craw error game would have been tied. Tough L which seems to come with territory but 2 still to play.

W Davis seems to be exactly the high priced FA closer in question. See that ultimately works out for Rox.

So here’s the club’s international signings from yesterday. I don’t know about any of these kids but it is interesting to see their approach to younger prospects – more position players than pitchers. Anyone ever seen a game in Venezuela?

Moronta was overthrowing big time last night, way too pumped up. He needs to get that under control to attain any kind of consistency. He has an unbelievable arm, but just going in and uncorking wild 99 mph heaters with no idea where they’re going ain’t going to get it done.

Felipe Alou does have his own Academy in the DR. You’d think that would help Giants somehow.

Daniel’s Cards started 9 game road trip by beating AZ and Ray last night 6-3, 4th L in row for Dbax. Cards had been swept at home by Braves so probably felt good to get out of Dodge. Giants have 2 more Ws 1 less L than them at this point in season. Would not have seen that coming.

Off-topic a bit. Just saw this article. I have read on more than one occasion that Giant management’s prime motivation on skirting the luxury tax is to set them up for going hard into free-agency, as buyers next year. And also on more than one occasion, the target is supposedly Harper. This is an interesting read on him…

I was wondering where the rest of FU stood on the potential to bring Harper into the fold?

LJ – I am talking specifically since he started his rehab, which was I believe a start in San Jose (maybe two), and the latest two in Sacramento. Looking only at that sample, he has been less than stellar. I am NOT talking his career…

And seriously, the way he has looked vs. what D-Rod has shown us, I would rather have the kid taking the ball every fifth day, and have Shark doing long relief.

Nice article, Chi; thanks!
Ken Rosenthal, on the MLB Network recently, has the thought that maybe Bryce’s pressure in this contract year is infecting the whole team, bringing more pressure on everyone. It’s a gloomy cloud hanging over the team.
Rosenthal also wonders how much the team misses Dusty Baker, who seemed to be a master psychologist with the Nats.

Harper is interesting. I think he’s tremendous talent and way less dislikable now. If you bounce some rudimentary B/R stats around the difference btw he and Stanton isn’t substantial at least for this year.
But yeah a hot streak where he carries his team back into first place wouldn’t hurt.

I would hope off season SF addresses the OF. Slater isn’t a power guy, Duggar wouldn’t be either and Gorks power etc hard to trust. Harper would be good place to start, and if you don’t get him adjust sights lower.

It will be interesting to see if they can land Harper. I doubt he would be interested but who knows? Put him in RF rounded out by some combination of Gorky/Duggar/Slater/Williamson and its a pretty good defensive alignment.

Just got back from my workout. This team is driving me fucking crazy. So, we score 9 runs without a long ball in AZ, and now can’t hit the Rox shitty pitching (they are 29th in team ERA, and 26th in WHIP). AZ is 3rd in team ERA, 9th in WHIP (ML-wide). fffttt….

lol no. He hasn’t advanced to that level of trolling yet. He’s still working on posting something in real time. He watches all the games on tape. I finally broke it to him that they got killed tonight and that’s when he started posting

Bochy’s post-game interview impressed me, with his matter-of-fact, professionally respectful analysis of Stratton’s performance tonight, as if he couldn’t wait to see the asshole optioned away tomorrow.

I guess Stratton longed for the heat of Sac, he did his best to make it EZ for the FO to make that decision.
And, yes, BTW, what the hell was that lineup today?
Is there any chance anybody would take Pence if the Giants paid 90% of his salary? I assume that would take nearly $2 million off the most feared Lux Tax Limit Line. The LTLL is now the real General Manager of the Giants…

August 24, 2009 at Coors — just the epitome of the Giants experience there, before and since.
You guys remember that game — in the 14th, after the Giants had taken the lead, the Rockies came back in the bottom of the inning when Ryan Spilborghs hit a walk off grand salami off Merkin Valdez. As soon as he hit the pitch and the crowd still there started to scream, Kuiper said a great line something like: “You’re not gonna like this…”

I saw a replay of Pence fielding that Story double in the 3rd, that he turned into a triple by flubbing the carom off the wall out there. And then a throw he made in the general direction of home plate later in the game that ended halfway up the first base line. My goodness, his defense just suxx eggs. Add to that he can’t hit. That double to left he got the other day was the first extra base hit to his pull field all season. How much longer are they going to put him out there — social media is full of fans asking the same question…

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Timmy is 34 now. And I want to say “only 34”. And he’s been pretty much done for awhile. I can’t really even imagine how that would feel, to be *done* before the age of 35. Because, you know, my career has just been one long upward trajectory with no end in sight…